{"id":599344,"date":"2025-11-28T14:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599344\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:19:20","slug":"england-vs-china-pr-international-friendly-preview-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599344\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs China PR: International friendly preview, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

England<\/a><\/strong> take on China PR at Wembley<\/a><\/strong> in their third outing since their Euros 2025 victory in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

England have won two of their five meetings with China PR across all competitions. The two sides last met back in 2023 in the group stages of the last Women\u2019s World Cup<\/a><\/strong> in Australia and New Zealand where the Lionesses came out on top with the game finishing with a 6-1 win.<\/p>\n

China PR have lost every one of their last six games against the current top five nations (Spain, USA, Sweden, England, Germany) by an aggregate score of 21-3.<\/p>\n

The Lionesses enter this international window with a rotated squad with Sarina Wiegman<\/a> <\/strong>continuing her run of bringing young players from the under 23s side, with Freya Godfrey<\/a><\/strong> getting her first senior call up, along with Lucia Kendall<\/a><\/strong> and Anouk Denton receiving their second.<\/p>\n

However, there are notable misses such as Hannah Hampton,<\/a><\/strong> who is set to be out until the new year with a quad injury. Additionally, Captain Leah Williamson is still unavailable for both club and country and is yet to feature since the Euros.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, on a more positive note according to Wiegman, the entire of the selected squad for this international window is currently available for selection for Saturday\u2019s game against China PR.<\/p>\n

England: Keira Walsh<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Keira Walsh<\/a><\/strong> is set to captain the side and make her 96th cap for England.<\/p>\n

The Chelsea player, previously played for Manchester City<\/a><\/b> winning the WSL title in 2016, the Women\u2019s FA Cup three times and the Women\u2019s League Cup on four occasions.<\/p>\n

Following Euros victory in 2022, she then transferred to European giants, Barcelona, where won a variety of domestic trophies alongside two UEFA Champions League<\/a><\/strong> wins.<\/p>\n

Walsh, then returned back to the WSL joining big guns Chelsea in January 2024, where she slotted in seamlessly, helping them to yet another domestic treble.<\/p>\n

Walsh is known for her pin point accurate passing, along with her ability to read the game well, dictating the direction of play and moving to support players in possession.<\/p>\n

She made her international debut for England back in November 2017 aged 21. Since then she has made a name for herself, playing vital roles in the both of England\u2019s Euro<\/a><\/strong> victories, as well their 2023 World Cup<\/a><\/strong> run.<\/p>\n

China PR: Wang Shuang<\/p>\n

Wang plays a key part in the Chinese national team, with the winger being capped 126 times for her country.<\/p>\n

The winger, has played in various countries across the world, including her home country of China, Korea, France, Unites States and the UK.<\/p>\n

Most notably she played for Division 1 F\u00e9minine club, Paris Saint-Germain,<\/a><\/strong> NWSL club Racing Louisville<\/a><\/strong> and most recently played for the WSL side Tottenham Hotspur<\/a><\/b> last season before transferring to Wuhan Jiangda.<\/p>\n

The match is being held at Wembley Stadium,<\/a><\/strong> London.<\/p>\n

Kick off will be at 5.30pm on Saturday 29th November<\/p>\n

The game will be available in the UK to watch on ITV1 or ITVX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England take on China PR at Wembley in their third outing since their Euros 2025 victory in Switzerland.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[188132,748,188130,188129,393,168217,16517,107125,4884,96145,42809,172954,45545,32416,16,15,188131,13582],"class_list":{"0":"post-599344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-anouk-denton","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-china-pr","11":"tag-china-women","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-england-lionesses","14":"tag-england-women","15":"tag-freya-godfrey","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-keira-walsh","18":"tag-leah-williamson","19":"tag-lucia-kendall","20":"tag-sarina-wiegman","21":"tag-uefa-womens-euro-2025","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-wang-shuang","25":"tag-womens-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}